Sunday, August 30, 2015

Bloomberg/SacBee: Sanders within striking distance of Clinton in Iowa poll

By Margaret Talev, Aug. 29, 2015, Bloomberg/Sacramento Bee

Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-prohibitive advantage in Iowa has slipped enough to jeopardize her front- runner status and Bernie Sanders has moved to within striking distance, revealing a Democratic presidential field in unexpected flux as Vice President Joe Biden considers whether to run.

The results of the latest Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll, released Saturday, show Clinton is now the first choice of 37 percent of likely Democratic caucus-goers in the state where the first ballots of the presidential contest will be cast early next year. She's followed by Sanders at 30 percent and Biden at 14 percent. It's the first time the poll has had Clinton's support under 50 percent.

In May, the Iowa Poll put Clinton at 57 percent, Sanders at 16 percent, and Biden at 8 percent.

"It looks like what people call the era of inevitability is over," said J. Ann Selzer, president of West Des Moines, Iowa- based Selzer & Co., which conducted the poll. "She has lost a third of the support that she had in May, so any time you lose that much that quickly, it's a wake-up call."

The decline in Clinton's rating in the poll comes despite her dominance of the local broadcast airwaves. During the past month, she was the only Democratic candidate or political action committee advertising on broadcast television stations in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. According to Kantar/CMAG data, the Clinton campaign was not only unopposed on the Democratic side, but also ran more than twice as many ads in the markets where it bought, than all Republican advertising combined.

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